Hi All
There is a flip side to every coin and though I WHOLE HEARTEDLY AGREE with
seat belts, my father escaped serious injury because he was not wearing a
seat belt. He was in a triumph sedan though! The car was hit in the side
then pushed into a shop front by a drunk bastard and when the bonnet popped
through the windscreen propelling the whole thing to the back parcel shelf
my father was already laid across the front seats (by the side impact). Only
injury cut knee from kneeling on a stray fragment of glass whilst kicking
the drivers door open. when the drunk said he was only doing 30 mph the
police officer was heard to remark "What in a bloody tank?" The best bit is
the DD and his three co-conspirators were hospitalised (only minor injuries)
the worst bit is they (yes they, it isn't only the drivers fault!) wrote off
the best sedan we ever owned. Having said all that please DO wear your belts
they do save lives! Probably saved the occupants of the other car as it was
camel shaped and much shorter than before the crash!
Graham.
----- Original Message -----
From: Mostrom, Paul <Mostrom.Paul@principal.com>
To: Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 5:04 PM
Subject: RE: Tense driving lately
>
> Jeff,
>
> I whole-heartedly agree with your post script.
>
> I served as a Paramedic with the local rescue squad for 17 years. I will
> never forget the man who we found face down in the ditch, next to his car.
He
> had been thrown from his car, which then rolled over him. The air bag was
> deployed and the passenger compartment was intact. I am firmly convinced
that
> he would have survived, with only minor injuries, if he would have
remained in
> the car.
>
> Sometimes I wish I had one of those brain zapping - 'flashy thingys' from
the
> movie 'Men in Black'. Just another one of a thousand memories I would
like to
> forget.
>
> Sorry for being such a downer....
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Mostrom
> '77 Spitfire 1500
> '80 Ford F-100 (Triumph Support Vehicle)
>
>
> 'Black holes, where God divided by zero......'
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff McNeal [mailto:jmcneal@ohms.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 10:30 AM
> To: Mostrom, Paul; 'Carter Shore'; Spitfire List
> Subject: Re: Tense driving lately
>
>
> Just be glad that you don't have to deal with Southern California freeway
> driving with your kid, Paul! I'm going to be a nervous WRECK!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff in San Diego
> '67 RHD Spitfire Mk3
> www.ohms.com/spitfire/spitfire.shtml
> Jeff's Classic '67 Spitfire Mk3 Site
>
> P.S. The religious use of SEATBELTS can never be emphasized enough. I
> speak from experience. lost my mother five years ago because she wasn't
> wearing hers...
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mostrom, Paul <Mostrom.Paul@principal.com>
> To: 'Carter Shore' <clshore@yahoo.com>; Jeff McNeal <jmcneal@ohms.com>;
> Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 5:53 AM
> Subject: RE: Tense driving lately
>
>
> > Thanks you two for making me feel so much better!
> >
> > My son just turned 14, the age that he can get his learner's permit in
> Iowa.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Paul Mostrom
> > '77 Spitfire 1500
> > '80 Ford F-100 (Triumph Support Vehicle)
> >
> >
> > 'Black holes, where God divided by zero......'
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carter Shore [mailto:clshore@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 7:37 AM
> > To: Jeff McNeal; Spitfire List
> > Subject: Re: Tense driving lately
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff,
> > Waaay back when, SCCA used to require both passenger
> > and driver seats in cars used for driver's school.
> > This, so that the instructor could 'take the student
> > for a ride', to familiarize them with how a racecar
> > should be properly driven. My instructor was Hurley
> > Heywood, and I still remember that ride. We were using
> > the infield portion of the Daytona course. Up to that
> > point, I had no idea that a car could be made to go
> > around a corner at such speeds (and slip angles).
> >
> > But it was nothing compared to riding with my teenage
> > son on our first outing.
> >
> > So I feel for you, buddy! (It does get better, if you
> > survive)
> >
> > Carter
> >
> > --- Jeff McNeal <jmcneal@ohms.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > It's been a real strange three days of driving.
> > > ... Then, this
> > > evening, I let my 15-year-old son drive me around in
> > > our 12-year-old Maxima ...
> > >
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> >
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